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Everything Happening with Simon Teen at New York Comic Con 2024
It’s that time of year again, friends–New York Comic Con is almost here! Below you can find a comprehensive schedule of all our Simon Teen activity this year. Don’t forget to follow us on X and Instagram for up-to-the minute news and content from us and our authors at New York Comic Con. See you soon! Day 1: Thursday, October 17th Stop by the Simon & Schuster booth to enter for a chance to win a collection of Spy School Graphic Novels by Stuart Gibbs.
FURY OF THE DRAGON GODDESS
In this follow-up to City of the Plague God (2021), 14-year-old Iraqi American Sikander Aziz and friends find the tablet of destinies and encounter a god who intends to use it to destroy the world. Visiting London accompanied by Rabisu, a demon and social media influencer with an appetite for the unsavory, Sik meets up with his late brother Mo’s friend Daoud, a former deli employee–turned–international supermodel.
Thor Quest: Hammers of the Gods
Pre-Order Available Formats Print Everyone’s favorite Asgardians are finally coming to the middle grade space with Thor Quest! In this super-charged, super-fun, fast-paced adventure, Thor, Loki, Sif, and Fandral find themselves on an epic quest across the stars. In heavy illustrated pages and even the occasional comics panel, our heroes learn the value of friendship, the power of purpose and destiny, and the importance of teamwork and humility.
Peter Pan & Wendy Junior Novelization
Buy Now Available Formats Print Fly away on a journey to Neverland with this novelization of the Walt Disney Studios live action film Peter Pan & Wendy, coming to Disney+. Wendy Darling isn’t sure she’s ready to grow up. Growing up means no more nights in the nursery, sharing stories about the heroic Peter Pan with her younger brothers, John and Michael.
Kingdom Keepers: Inheritance
Buy Now Available Formats Print, E-Book & Audio In the near future, in the Epcot of Walt Disney’s imagination, sixty thousand people live in a CommuniTree surrounding the forward-looking Walt Disney World theme park. Five unique families are among the residents—and some of the parents were once known as the Kingdom Keepers.
Winston Chu vs. the Whimsies
Buy Now Available Formats Print, E-Book & Audio Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents best-selling author Stacey Lee’s modern reimagining of a classic Chinese folktale—replete with magic, boba, and lots of trash talking. Twelve-year-old Winston Chu is supposed to learn impulse control at the cooking academy his mom enrolled him in. But learning to think before he acts won’t happen overnight.
The Book of Boba Fett Junior Novel
Buy Now Available Formats Print & E-Book Relive the excitement of the hit series Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett! Former bounty hunter Boba Fett has survived the sarlacc pit, nursed back to health and taken in by a tribe of Tuskens on Tatooine. When the tribe is slaughtered, Boba seeks revenge, and sets himself up in Jabba the Hutt’s old palace along with his new right hand, assassin Fennec Shand.
Simon Sort of Says
Buy Now Available Formats Print & E-Book For fans of Kate DiCamillo and Jack Gantos, a hilarious, wrenching, hopeful novel about finding your friends, healing your heart, and speaking your truth. Simon O’Keeffe’s biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a holy sacrament. Or maybe the alpaca disaster that went viral on YouTube.
Now Read This: ‘City of the Plague God,’ ‘Girls Garage’
Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story! Books recommended by the Hawaii State Library: “City of the Plague God” By Sarwat Chadda Sik just wants to live an ordinary life, but that changes when Nergal, the Mesopotamian plague god, shows up looking for him. Why is Nergal pursuing him and can he save Manhattan from the plague?
Amazon Announces 20 Best Children's Books of 2021, So Far
There are lots of great new children’s books out there and sometimes it can be overwhelming to decide what to read next. Fortunately Amazon just released the annual Best Books of the Year So Far list, featuring books published between January and June. The result? 20 diverse selections that will make bedtime story time and summer downtime that much better. Top selection Eyes That Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho has more than 1,000 five stars reviews on Amazon.
Newsletter - Tiffany Babb
Putting it Together is a monthly newsletter about art and how we interact with it. Every letter has been posted below. Sign up to get these letters directly in your inbox by filling out the form below. -- I bought a banjo recently. I had been thinking about it for a while, ever since I rewatched Cool Hand Luke a couple of years ago during a Paul Newman marathon, and as summer rolled in slowly (so slowly, as it's still grey in SoCal), I wanted a new musical hobby.
Aru Shah and the City of Gold
Buy Now Available Formats Print & E-Book Best-selling author Rick Riordan Presents the penultimate book in the Pandava series by best-selling author Roshani Chokshi. Aru Shah and her sisters–including one who also claims to be the Sleeper’s daughter–must find their mentors Hanuman and Urvashi in Lanka, the city of gold, before war breaks out between the devas and asuras. Aru has just made a wish on the tree of wishes, but she can’t remember what it was.
CITY OF THE PLAGUE GOD
From the Trials of Apollo series , Vol. 5 In this tumultuous series closer, Apollo, transformed into a mortal teenager, takes on both a deified emperor in a luxurious Manhattan high-rise and an older adversary.
The Last Fallen Star
Riley Oh can’t wait to see her sister get initiated into the Gom clan, a powerful lineage of Korean healing witches their family has belonged to for generations. Her sister, Hattie, will earn her Gi bracelet and finally be able to cast spells without adult supervision. Although Riley is desperate to follow in her sister’s footsteps when she herself turns thirteen, she’s a saram–a person without magic.
Part of Your Nightmare
Buy Now Available Formats Print & eBook “My dear, sweet child. Go ahead. Don’t be afraid….” Eleven-year-old Shelly Anderson just wants to be popular. Her parents have split and she has to start over at a new school with different classes, a brand new swim team and an unfamiliar social scene. So what if she just wants the cool kids to like her? Is that really too much to ask?
The Shadow Crosser
Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents the epic finale to the Storm Runner trilogy, written by J.C. Cervantes, a tale of mystery, magic, and mayhem featuring gods from both Maya and Aztec mythology. Zane Obispo has been looking forward to his training at the Shaman Institute for Higher Order Magic, and not only because it means he’ll be reunited with his best friend, Brooks.
Tristan Strong Destroys the World
Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents the second book in the New York Times best-selling Tristan Strong trilogy by Kwame Mbalia. Tristan Strong, just back from a victorious but exhausting adventure in Alke, the land of African American folk heroes and African gods, is suffering from PTSD. But there’s no rest for the weary when his grandmother is abducted by a mysterious villain out for revenge.
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Buy Now Available Formats Print & eBook Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Kwame Mbalia’s epic fantasy, a middle grade American Gods set in a richly-imagined world populated with African American folk heroes and West African gods. Seventh grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in.
Paola Santiago and the River of Tears
Space-obsessed 12-year-old Paola Santiago and her two best friends, Emma and Dante, know the rule: Stay away from the river. It’s all they’ve heard since a schoolmate of theirs drowned a year ago. Pao is embarrassed to admit that she has been told to stay away for even longer than that, because her mother is constantly warning her about La Llorona, the wailing ghost woman who wanders the banks of the Gila at night, looking for young people to drag into its murky depths.
Ladybird Tales of Super Heroes
Superheroes have always been with us, from gods with mighty powers to human heroes who don disguises to save the day . . . Join six larger-than-life mythic and legendary heroes from around the world in this colourful, illustrated collection of Ladybird Tales. Meet tricksters, fighters, shape-shifters and even people who save the day with just the power of speech.
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